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The Vicious Hillbilly or Dating in the Deep South, a tale of woe in story and song
Runtime 55 min Storyteller/singer-songwriter, Dawn Larsen, grew up in the Ozarks amid lots of mountain music, arts, and storytelling. Driving down the road one day, trying to decide on the order of songs for her CD, The Vicious Hillbilly, she realized that the CD was a chronicle of her pathetic love life via online dating as a mature, progressive, educated hillbilly girl living in the South. She fashioned those experiences into a one-woman show, The Vicious Hillbilly or Dating in the Deep South, a tale of woe in story and song. A poignant comedy, highlighting 10 lessons (and one bonus lesson!) learned, the show combines her original songs with the story of the journey of her discovery of who she is, what she wants, and that love is her divine right. She has performed this show for two years at festivals including: Cincy Fringe, Atlanta Fringe, St. Louis Fringe, Louisville Fringe, Greensboro Fringe, Southeastern Theatre Conference Fringe, and Nashville Women's Work. |
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Corn Under Canvas: An Evening with a Tent Show Actress
Runtime 55 min Maxine Lacey and her family traveled with the Bisbee Comedians tent show in rural western Kentucky and western and middle Tennessee from 1940-1965. She starred in many lead roles doing twenty or so small towns per season. These traveling tent shows presented popular melodrama, and most especially Toby shows, which featured a stock character named Toby. The star of the show, Toby was a freckled faced rube who with his friends and family outwitted the evil city slickers. For much of the first half of the 20th century tent shows were the main source of entertainment for millions of rural Americans and the Toby character became an archetype leading to other characters like Andy Griffith. The role of Susie, Toby's smarter than she looks girlfriend, was one of Maxine's favorite roles. Dawn brings Maxine to life as she chronicles life on the road with a tent show. Dawn performed this show with the Kentucky Humanities Council's Telling Kentucky's Story Chautauqua program for five years, as well as all over rural Tennessee and southern Illinois for special events. |
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NEW SHOW!
Granny's Fixit: An Ozark Guide to Healin' the Body and Soul Runtime 50 min Dawn grew up in a town very much like Mayberry. Her Grandpa was a county official who worked at the courthouse. There was a town drunk, a Barney, and a town doctor who made his own medicines. When Doc Threadgill wasn't available, he would defer to an older native, a granny woman. Granny women were healers/midwives/seers found in rural Appalachia and the Ozarks. As a little girl, Dawn knew one. She finds these women fascinating. We all know, or we should, that women's stories have often been excluded from history. Women, especially older women, are treated as if we are invisible. Well...Dawn, who is entering into her crone years, thinks we have something to say....She does anyway and this show celebrates the crone, the granny woman and brings her out of the holler and into the light! Combining several historic granny women into one character, to tell a story of women in a solo show that features original and historic, music, spoken word, comedy, and images to transport audiences to the place she calls home. |
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Recorded Performances
Brand new podcast about Ozark lore.
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